The heading is an actual line of dialogue from All Fall Down.
I could probably take this movie more seriously if: (A) That wasn't the main character's name, or (B) The other characters didn't feel the need to call him that almost every time they addressed him.
Another main character is called Echo, which might sound unusual in another movie where the main character wasn't called Berry-Berry.
The performances otherwise are good enough that I can just get it to a positive rating, but a 3/5 still feels generous. It's a little dry and stagey (not in the best of ways either), and the story is only really serviceable.
Digging through a lot of lesser known Eva Marie Saint movies, I feel like she probably deserved better. Thankfully she got to shine in On the Waterfront and North By Northwest, which are two absolute classics (and deservedly so), but everything else I've seen her in she seems too good for.
Oh well. I guess most actors would still kill to be in those two aforementioned movies, and it's not like a movie like All Fall Down is bad, necessarily. It's just not great.
I could probably take this movie more seriously if: (A) That wasn't the main character's name, or (B) The other characters didn't feel the need to call him that almost every time they addressed him.
Another main character is called Echo, which might sound unusual in another movie where the main character wasn't called Berry-Berry.
The performances otherwise are good enough that I can just get it to a positive rating, but a 3/5 still feels generous. It's a little dry and stagey (not in the best of ways either), and the story is only really serviceable.
Digging through a lot of lesser known Eva Marie Saint movies, I feel like she probably deserved better. Thankfully she got to shine in On the Waterfront and North By Northwest, which are two absolute classics (and deservedly so), but everything else I've seen her in she seems too good for.
Oh well. I guess most actors would still kill to be in those two aforementioned movies, and it's not like a movie like All Fall Down is bad, necessarily. It's just not great.